Ft Hood Patsy Nidal Hasan was BUSH Homeland Security Advisor with Woolsey [9/11]

[America2]

Apologies if this was already posted today...

http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9315

[Unintelligable Name]

Attacking soldiers doesn't count as being a terrorist. Minor quibble.

[nofakenews]

Apologies if this was already posted today...

http://www.veteranstoday.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=9315

And more details come to light... 

[Lisbeth]

 It can now be divulged that alleged Fort Hood, Texas shooter, U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, has operated for years as a covert U.S. CIA Intelligence agent as well as an FBI informant and has recently been supplying evidence detailing the link between the alleged 9/11 perpetrators aka patsies and the East German DVD-Israeli Mossad 9/11 Al Qaeda Hamburg terrorist cell code name 'Becker'

http://blogs.myspace.com/tom_heneghan_intel

[luckee1]

America2 this needs a full post!  Great catch BTW!

Special Report: TERRORIST HASAN WAS BUSH HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR


FT. HOOD TERRORIST ON BUSH PRESTIGIOUS HOMELAND SECURITY TRANSITION TEAM

HASAN TIES TO GOP SUBJECT TO MASSIVE DISINFORMATION CAMPAIGN AND COVERUP

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

"Lucy, you got some splainin' to do."

The task force at George Washington University designated with establishing transitional procedures in the Global War on Terror included Major Hasan, mass murder and terrorist, and, as we now learn, long time terrorist suspect.  Where do we start?  Do we wonder why our troops have a psychiatrist who is not only a potential terrorist but known to be extremely mentally unbalanced?  Who, in the Bush Administration chose Hasan and helped him pass America's highest security clearances?

Do any of us wonder why President Bush would have a terrorist helping with his transitional policy?  This put Hasan, under investigation for ties to Al Qaeda, at the heart of our government's counter-terrorist planning organization with full daily access to nearly all major leaders in Homeland Security, Defense, the FBI, CIA, NSA and other key agencies.  He was one of them, along with representatives of conservative "think tanks" that advised the Bush Administration on a daily basis.  Was he there because he reminded them of an Islamic version of Dick Cheney?  Please, someone, let's hear an explanation for this.

Below is a cutout from the membership roster of those advising the Bush Administration.  You will note Hasan's name among some of the best known security experts in America.  We were told he was an Army psychiatrist with severe psychological problems who belonged to a mosque run by terrorists.



Hasan served with these individuals.  Why was he here?

    *
      Richard V. Allen Former National Security Advisor
    *
      Stephen E. Flynn Ira A. Lipman Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism & National Security Studies Council on Foreign Relations
    *
      Charles B. Curtis President & Chief Operating Officer Nuclear Threat Initiative
    *
      Judge William H.Webster Former Director of Central Intelligence and Former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
    *
      James Lee Witt Former Director Federal Emergency Management Agency
    *
      R. James Woolsey,  Former Director Central Intelligence Agency
    *
      Edwin Meese, III Former U.S. Attorney General
    *
      General Edward "Shy" Meyer Former Chief of Staff U.S. Army
    *
      General Edward L. Rowny Former Ambassador and Lt. General USA (Ret.)
    *
      Judge William S. Sessions Former Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
    *
      Bobbie Greene Kilberg Member President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
    *
      E. Floyd Kvamme Former Co-Chair President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
    *
      Senator Connie Mack (R-FL) Former United States Senator, Florida
    *
      Secretary John O. Marsh, Jr. (D-VA) Former Secretary of the Army Former U.S. Congressman
    *
      and many others
    *
      Major Hasan was briefed by these individuals:
    *
      Michael Alexander, Majority Staff Director, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate
    *
      John Cohen, Senior Advisor, Office of the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment , Office of the Director of National Intelligence
    *
      Rosaline Cohen , Chief Counsel, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives
    *
      Beth Grossman, Senior Counsel, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, U.S. Senate
    *
      Alethea Long-Green, Program Area Director, National Academy of Public Administration
    *
      Mark Lowenthal, President and CEO of the Intelligence & Security Academy, LLC, Former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production
    *
      Monica Schoch-Spana, Senior Associate, Center for Biosecurity, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases
    *
      Fran Townsend, Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism


The question we ask, is why was a simple low ranking military officer with a disasterous career, horrible security baggage and a Palestinian background placed at the center of the decision making apparatus of the Bush presidency?

The entire text of the procedings report and full membership are listed below.  Hasan's name stands out like a rapper at a Klan rally.  It doesn't take a genius to believe that Hasan had friends in high places, and that, despite every imaginable reason to see he shouldn't even practice medicine, much less be in the American military or treat troops suffering from combat stress, he was placed among the most influential and powerful Americans.

One could suggest that, since Hasan was in town and had nothing to do for the few months other than to work with thousands of patients returning from Iraq and, in the process, mingle with terrorist sympathizers and prove himself to be dangerously unstable and utterly useless as a physician and psychiatrist, he might as well be included in intelligence planning at the highest levels.

I can see where this could make sense to some, really, I do.  After all, if you were choosing the absolute last person on Earth to include in such a group, the last person to expose to that much intelligence planning and the most dangerous individual imaginable to the safety of so many of our leaders, Hasan is a perfect choice.

Why did he choose to kill soldiers at Ft. Hood when so many of the top members of the Bush Administration would have been available to him at any time?  If none of this makes any sense to you, I think you are beginning to understand.

Who was Major Hasan?  Who was he really?

SOME AREAS OF SPECULATION ABOUT MAJOR HASAN:

Hasan joined the Army at 18, entered and completed, not only college, but medical school and a residency in psychiatry at Walter Reed Hospital.  This is an amazing accomplishment.

His attendance at the above mentioned meetings based on a careful analysis of subject matter and the expertise level of everyone involved made the likelihood of a junior officer specializing in combat stress being invited unlikely.  Hasan would have to have been an intelligence asset of some kind.

Were this the case, as it most likely is, and taking into account that at least some of the accusations made against him are other than part of a coverup, Hasan was unstable.  Stating this about a psychiatrist is not much of a stretch.

His first targets were coworkers.  Were Hasan cross trained in intelligence and tasked with communicating with insurgents prior to deployment, the stress could have been enormous.  Hasan seems to have responded to having to pretend to be a terrorist by actually becoming one.

The more we read about his attendance at a 'terrorist Mosque" and connections with Al Qaeda, the more likely our assumptions are the correct ones.  It is far more likely that a double agent would become suicidally unbalanced than for a terrorist to, not only be promoted to Major in the US Army, but to be put on a high security intelligence transition team.

There may have been a time when the US Army believed Major Hasan would be of enormous value to them in ways quite unrelated to practicing medicine.  The Major Hasan we now know is a terrorist.  He may not always have been so.

This evening, the Associated Press states:

    "Investigators from the Fort Hood shootings say that Nidal Malik Hasan acted alone and that no evidence supports the theory that Hasan had outside help or orders about the massacre. Though in late 2008 Hasan did communicate with radical imam Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni who now lives overseas and has ties to terrorist groups, the messages "did not advocate violence or threaten violence." Sources say that the communications were consistent with Hasan's research as an Army psychologist on post-traumatic stress disorder. The FBI has launched an investigation into how it handled, or perhaps mishandled, the information it had on Hasan."

In a very few hours, the truth has danced like a marionette, across one side of the stage to another.  What can we expect?  We will get an endless supply of interim stories until a commission is appointed to interview witnesses and come to a convenient conclusion that will best serve political necessity.  The same among us will be sickened by the process.

VeteransToday Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.

[ramallamamama]

Wow.

[ramallamamama]

It's almost like they can travel back in time to manufacture stories and events.

[nofakenews]

It's almost like they can travel back in time to manufacture stories and events.

The good news is you have eyes to see and expose.. 

[v]

This needs to go viral.

[rustygunn]

Obama Urges Congress to Delay Fort Hood Investigation

On an eight-day Asia trip, President Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater."


President Obama on Saturday urged Congress to hold off on any investigation of the Fort Hood rampage until federal law enforcement and military authorities have completed their probes into the shootings at the Texas Army post, which left 13 people dead.

On an eight-day Asia trip, Obama turned his attention home and pleaded for lawmakers to "resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into the political theater." He said those who died on the nation's largest Army post deserve justice, not political stagecraft.

"The stakes are far too high," Obama said in a video and Internet address released by the White House while the president he was flying from Tokyo to Singapore, where Pacific Rim countries were meeting.

Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, was charged on Thursday with the shooting spree at Fort Hood last week. Army investigators have said Hasan is the only suspect and could face additional charges.

Obama already had ordered a review of all intelligence related to Hasan and whether the information was properly shared and acted upon within government agencies. Several members of Congress, particularly Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, have also called for a full examination of what agencies knew about Hasan's contacts with a radical Muslim cleric in Yemen and others of concern to the U.S.

Hoekstra confirmed this week that government officials knew of about 10 to 20 e-mails between Hasan and the radical imam, beginning in December 2008.

A joint terrorism task force overseen by the FBI learned late last year of Hasan's repeated contact with the cleric, who encouraged Muslims to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. The FBI said the task force did not refer early information about Hasan to superiors because it concluded he wasn't linked to terrorism.

Lawmakers, however, already have announced they want their own investigations and were frustrated with what they view as a less-than-forthcoming administration.

Rep. Howard McKeon, R-Calif., said he wanted to go ahead with an investigation from the House Armed Services Committee, where he is the top Republican. He said he wanted an investigation that wouldn't compromise law enforcement or military investigations that were continuing on separate tracks.

In the Senate, Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, said his Homeland Security Committee was opening an investigation.

Obama said he was not opposed to hearings -- eventually. But he strongly pressed lawmakers to hold off until the probes now under way are completed.

"There is an ongoing investigation into this terrible tragedy," Obama said. "That investigation will look at the motives of the alleged gunman, including his views and contacts."

"We must compile every piece of information that was known about the gunman, and we must learn what was done with that information. Once we have those facts, we must act upon them."
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/14/obama-urges-congress-delay-fort-hood-investigation/

[TelepesT]

 
 
 
 
05/23/2002 - Updated 09:05 AM ET 
 
 
 
 
 
Bush opposes commission to probe 9/11 warnings

BERLIN (AP) — President Bush said Thursday he opposes establishing a special commission to probe how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11, saying the matter should be dealt with by congressional intelligence committees.

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Bush also expressed reservations about releasing a memo he received last August that carried a warning that Islamic extremists might try to hijack an airliner.

"We're still at war," the president said. "We've still got threats to the homeland that we've got to deal with, and it's very important for us not to hamper our ability to wage that war." He said it is important to act in a manner that does not jeopardize intelligence-gathering.

Bush said the investigation of possible intelligence lapses should be confined to Congress despite a call by Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and others for a special commission.
Bush said the members of the Senate and House intelligence committees "understand the obligations of upholding our secrets and our sources and methods of collecting intelligence. And therefore I think that's the best place for Congress to take a good look at the events leading up to Sept. 11."

The president spoke at a joint news conference with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on the first stop of a four-nation European trip.

Bush said he retains "great confidence" in the CIA and FBI despite revelations about advance intelligence that terrorists might hijack an airplane.

Bush's remarks came a day after Vice President Dick Cheney said a new series of public terror warnings was based on increased threats and was not a political strategy to deflect criticism of the administration's handling of pre-Sept. 11 intelligence.

"The fact is there is reason to believe that the threat level has increased somewhat," Cheney said Wednesday on CNN's Larry King Live. "We see more noise in the system, more reporting that leads us to be cautious here. We haven't changed our practices at all in terms of when we decide to go public and caution people."

Authorities continued to tighten security around New York City landmarks after the FBI disclosed uncorroborated information from detainees that sites such as the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge might be attacked.

Cheney said the White House was not raising the nationwide terrorism alert status — currently at yellow, the third-highest of five levels — because intelligence on possible attacks was too vague.

Cheney also said a special, independent commission into how the government dealt with terror warnings before Sept. 11 would result in intelligence leaks. Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., have proposed that a special commission investigate the matter and have suggested that more should have been done with the advance intelligence.

Congress is already investigating.

"Our concern is that if we lay another investigation on top of that we'll just multiply potential sources of leaks and disclosures of information we can't disclose," Cheney said. "The key to our ability to defend ourselves and to take out the terrorists lies in intelligence."

Daschle questioned the Bush administration's motive for resisting the commission.

"I think while we respect the need for secrecy, we also have a strong belief in the need for sharing information so that we can make good judgments about the facts," Daschle said in a speech at the National Press Club. "And there is an increasing pattern that I find in this administration that reflects an unwillingness to share information — not only with us but within their own administration; one department not telling the other, people in positions of responsibility not telling the president."

The political battle intensified Wednesday over what information the government had before Sept. 11 about possible terror attacks. For the second day, FBI Director Robert Mueller and agent Kenneth Williams testified behind closed doors to lawmakers investigating what the government knew.

Williams wrote a pre-Sept. 11 warning about Arab students at an Arizona flight school that he hoped would lead to screenings of Middle Easterners who came to study U.S. airport operations, according to government officials familiar with his account.

Williams' July 10, 2001, memo linked the Arab students to a militant Muslim group in London whose leader openly supported Osama bin Laden, said government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity.

On Tuesday, both Mueller and Williams gave testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee. They appeared before the House and Senate Intelligence committees Wednesday.

Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called the memo "highly embarrassing to the bureau" and urged its public release.

 
 
 

[Dig]

HASAN - WOOLSEY

WOOLSEY is one of the 9/11 terrorists identified by Sibel Edmonds

This is blockbuster info, checkthe comments on that article often, people usually leak awesome info in articles like this.

[Dig]

RESEARCH ALL OF THESE NAMES, THESE PEOPLE ARE MASTERS OF NATIONAL DECEPTION AND USING TERRORISM TO MANIPULATE DOMESTIC/FOREIGN POLICY....

Just Who Was At That Fake FEMA Briefing?
CBS News Obtains A Photo Of The "Press" Gallery Full Of FEMA Staffers

A photo obtained by CBS News of the fake FEMA news conference about the California wildfires on Oct. 23, 2007.  (CBS)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/09/cbsnews_investigates/main3481008.shtml
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2007

FEMA Official Regrets Phony Press Briefing

(CBS/AP)  CBS News has obtained this photo of the now infamous fake FEMA press conference held during the California wildfires. The photo, taken by a FEMA employee, is one of the only known photos of the press gallery of that event.

The gallery is not filled with members of the press but with high-level agency employees.

At the podium on the left is Vice Admiral Harvey Johnson, the second in command at FEMA.

The former director of public affairs at the agency, John "Pat" Philbin told CBS News last week, "I am not aware that he knew what was happening and all of sudden staff were asking questions."

Identified in the photo are staff members that Johnson works closely with on a daily basis.

From left to right: Nathaniel Fogg, Counselor to the Director and Deputy Director; John "Pat" Philbin, former Director of External Affairs; Michael Widomski, Public Affairs Specialist; Eric Heighberger, Special Assistant, Office of the Administrator; Cindy Taylor (in tan suit), Communications Deputy Director; Dan Shulman (red tie), Director of Legislative Affairs; Debbie Wing (curly blond hair), Media Response Liaison; Aaron Walker (back to camera), National Spokesman.

(CBS)


Primary Source Blog: Heads Roll At FEMA | "I Should Have Cancelled"


It was announced Thursday that an internal investigation had found that FEMA's press secretary encouraged, and in some cases instructed, employees to pose as reporters and ask questions at the fake news conference.

At the same time, the investigation, which was conducted by Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke, concluded that officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, did not set out to deceive the public. Knocke blamed bad decision-making and a rush to get out information about wildfires that were raging in southern California.

"Much like in an airline crash or automobile accident that was reconstructed, there were several different points leading up to the press conference where, had a single decision been made differently, the event itself could have been averted," Knocke said Thursday.

Aaron Walker, the FEMA press secretary, has since accepted a job with a public relations firm in Utah. He said Thursday that FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison did not ask him to leave as a result of the incident or the investigation's findings.

On Oct. 23, reporters were given 15 minutes' notice for what turned into a staged question-and-answer briefing with FEMA's deputy administrator about the California fires. No genuine journalists attended, although they were given a conference call number they could use to listen in but not ask questions. A half-dozen questions were asked at the event by FEMA staff members posing as reporters.

Since the briefing Philbin - who, at the time of the news conference, already had accepted a job at the office of the director of national intelligence - lost his new post before he even started because of the incident.

The incident has been condemned by the White House and by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Paulison called it "an egregious decision."

A FEMA official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the investigation found that during the news conference Walker advised the staff that the briefing continued to be televised and that they should continue to ask questions. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about personnel matters.

Walker, in an interview Thursday, said he had asked his boss to push back the time of the news conference, which had been hastily set for 1 p.m. Walker said he sent a 12:17 p.m. e-mail to Philbin and Homeland Security's assistant secretary for public affairs, Ed Fox, and asked for more time, but the e-mail went unanswered.

The agency's deputy administrator, Harvey Johnson, called on FEMA employees by name during the news conference and knew they weren't reporters.

The Homeland Security Department, of which FEMA is a part, directed FEMA officials to hold a news conference that day before Chertoff and Paulison landed in California, but did not designate a specific time, the FEMA official said.

Since the incident, the department suffered another public relations embarrassment when it was discovered that the assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement judged a Halloween costume contest and awarded "most original" to an employee dressed in dreadlocks, dark makeup and prison stripes. That employee has been placed on leave.


Eric's campaign contributions:

Contributor   Candidate or PAC    Amount    Date    FEC Filing
HEIGHBERGER, ERIC
ARLINGTON, VA 22202
IBM CORP./CONSULTANT   PORTMAN, ROB (R)
Senate - OH
PORTMAN FOR SENATE COMMITTEE   $300
primary   05/13/09   
HEIGHBERGER, ERIC MR.
ARLINGTON, VA 22202
US GOVERNMENT/ADVISOR   MCCAIN, JOHN S. (R)
President
JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC.   $500
primary   01/30/08   
Heighberger, Eric B Mr.
Arlington, VA 22202
Fema/Deputy Director Of Legislative
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)   $250
primary   10/06/06   
Heighberger, Eric B Mr.
Arlington, VA 22202
I.B.M./Consultant   
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)   $250
primary   05/05/05


Eric has written books and is instrumental in helping the middle class of America be seduced into the Federal Reserve Ponzi Schemes, Racketeering, and Gambling Initiatives:

The Real Life Investing Guide: How to Buy Whatever You Want, Save for Retirement, and Take the Vacation of Your Dreams--While You're Still Young
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0070503192.html
Kenan Pollack, Eric Heighberger


Eric lists his title as an IBM Consultant and as a Government Advisor on his political contribution disclosures.

IBM, Manipulating the Middle Class to buy into fake financial bubbles, Deceiving the American People with Fake FEMA Briefings, Associate of a Multiiple Homocide Government False Flag against US soldiers....

WTF?

[Mike Philbin]

no relation.

The former director of public affairs at the agency, John "Pat" Philbin told CBS News last week, "I am not aware that he knew what was happening and all of sudden staff were asking questions."

otherwise, this is all very interesting - is it like they're BURNING THEIR OWN? Maybe a more realistic call would be to search for follow-ups on the lives of those on the original list. Their lives may be in severe danger.

Has there been any comment extracted/found from Hasan himself as to motive/mood on the day? You know you'll not find out the truth from an Army Investigation. Those guys off each other all the time.

[Dig]

RESEARCH ALL OF THESE NAMES, THESE PEOPLE ARE MASTERS OF NATIONAL DECEPTION AND USING TERRORISM TO MANIPULATE DOMESTIC/FOREIGN POLICY....

Just Who Was At That Fake FEMA Briefing?
CBS News Obtains A Photo Of The "Press" Gallery Full Of FEMA Staffers

A photo obtained by CBS News of the fake FEMA news conference about the California wildfires on Oct. 23, 2007.  (CBS)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/09/cbsnews_investigates/main3481008.shtml
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2007

FEMA Official Regrets Phony Press Briefing

(CBS/AP)  CBS News has obtained this photo of the now infamous fake FEMA press conference held during the California wildfires. The photo, taken by a FEMA employee, is one of the only known photos of the press gallery of that event.

The gallery is not filled with members of the press but with high-level agency employees.

At the podium on the left is Vice Admiral Harvey Johnson, the second in command at FEMA.

The former director of public affairs at the agency, John "Pat" Philbin told CBS News last week, "I am not aware that he knew what was happening and all of sudden staff were asking questions."

Identified in the photo are staff members that Johnson works closely with on a daily basis.

From left to right: Nathaniel Fogg, Counselor to the Director and Deputy Director; John "Pat" Philbin, former Director of External Affairs; Michael Widomski, Public Affairs Specialist; Eric Heighberger, Special Assistant, Office of the Administrator; Cindy Taylor (in tan suit), Communications Deputy Director; Dan Shulman (red tie), Director of Legislative Affairs; Debbie Wing (curly blond hair), Media Response Liaison; Aaron Walker (back to camera), National Spokesman.

(CBS)


Primary Source Blog: Heads Roll At FEMA | "I Should Have Cancelled"


It was announced Thursday that an internal investigation had found that FEMA's press secretary encouraged, and in some cases instructed, employees to pose as reporters and ask questions at the fake news conference.

At the same time, the investigation, which was conducted by Homeland Security Department spokesman Russ Knocke, concluded that officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, did not set out to deceive the public. Knocke blamed bad decision-making and a rush to get out information about wildfires that were raging in southern California.

"Much like in an airline crash or automobile accident that was reconstructed, there were several different points leading up to the press conference where, had a single decision been made differently, the event itself could have been averted," Knocke said Thursday.

Aaron Walker, the FEMA press secretary, has since accepted a job with a public relations firm in Utah. He said Thursday that FEMA Administrator R. David Paulison did not ask him to leave as a result of the incident or the investigation's findings.

On Oct. 23, reporters were given 15 minutes' notice for what turned into a staged question-and-answer briefing with FEMA's deputy administrator about the California fires. No genuine journalists attended, although they were given a conference call number they could use to listen in but not ask questions. A half-dozen questions were asked at the event by FEMA staff members posing as reporters.

Since the briefing Philbin - who, at the time of the news conference, already had accepted a job at the office of the director of national intelligence - lost his new post before he even started because of the incident.

The incident has been condemned by the White House and by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Paulison called it "an egregious decision."

A FEMA official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the investigation found that during the news conference Walker advised the staff that the briefing continued to be televised and that they should continue to ask questions. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about personnel matters.

Walker, in an interview Thursday, said he had asked his boss to push back the time of the news conference, which had been hastily set for 1 p.m. Walker said he sent a 12:17 p.m. e-mail to Philbin and Homeland Security's assistant secretary for public affairs, Ed Fox, and asked for more time, but the e-mail went unanswered.

The agency's deputy administrator, Harvey Johnson, called on FEMA employees by name during the news conference and knew they weren't reporters.

The Homeland Security Department, of which FEMA is a part, directed FEMA officials to hold a news conference that day before Chertoff and Paulison landed in California, but did not designate a specific time, the FEMA official said.

Since the incident, the department suffered another public relations embarrassment when it was discovered that the assistant secretary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement judged a Halloween costume contest and awarded "most original" to an employee dressed in dreadlocks, dark makeup and prison stripes. That employee has been placed on leave.


Eric's campaign contributions:

Contributor   Candidate or PAC    Amount    Date    FEC Filing
HEIGHBERGER, ERIC
ARLINGTON, VA 22202
IBM CORP./CONSULTANT   PORTMAN, ROB (R)
Senate - OH
PORTMAN FOR SENATE COMMITTEE   $300
primary   05/13/09   
HEIGHBERGER, ERIC MR.
ARLINGTON, VA 22202
US GOVERNMENT/ADVISOR   MCCAIN, JOHN S. (R)
President
JOHN MCCAIN 2008 INC.   $500
primary   01/30/08   
Heighberger, Eric B Mr.
Arlington, VA 22202
Fema/Deputy Director Of Legislative
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)   $250
primary   10/06/06   
Heighberger, Eric B Mr.
Arlington, VA 22202
I.B.M./Consultant   
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (R)   $250
primary   05/05/05


Eric has written books and is instrumental in helping the middle class of America be seduced into the Federal Reserve Ponzi Schemes, Racketeering, and Gambling Initiatives:

The Real Life Investing Guide: How to Buy Whatever You Want, Save for Retirement, and Take the Vacation of Your Dreams--While You're Still Young
http://www.mcgraw-hill.co.uk/html/0070503192.html
Kenan Pollack, Eric Heighberger


Eric lists his title as an IBM Consultant and as a Government Advisor on his political contribution disclosures.

IBM, Manipulating the Middle Class to buy into fake financial bubbles, Deceiving the American People with Fake FEMA Briefings, Associate of a Multiiple Homocide Government False Flag against US soldiers....

WTF?

NOW HE IS A CONSULOTANT AT PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Eric Heighberger
Manager
PricewaterhouseCoopers


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Dress Code and Special Events
Dress for committee meetings, workshops and social events is business casual. Business attire is
appropriate for the General Session.

Conference Materials
Materials from the Conference General Session, committee meeting minutes, workshop handouts,
position papers and other important documents will be posted to the NEMA web site following the
conference. The NEMA web site address is www.nemaweb.org.

Committee Meetings
Every NEMA committee meets in conjunction with both the Annual and Mid‐Year Conferences. As a
conference registrant, you can attend most of the committee meetings. Please check the conference
agenda beginning on page three to learn which meetings are closed.

At all committee meetings, there is a conference table for committee members. If you are not a member
of the committee, please use the theater seating. The only exception to this is when there are extra
chairs at the committee table. State directors who do not serve on the committee are welcomed to sit in
these chairs.

Each committee has an agenda with specific topics they have chosen to discuss. At some point, this
dialogue may be opened up to all attendees for questions or comments.

Board of Directors Meeting
The NEMA Board of Directors meets in conjunction with each conference. The meetings are open.

Conference General Session
The conference general session is open to all attendees and includes presentations that would be of
interest to everyone. In the middle of the room is a hollow square where state emergency management
directors are seated. There is a state flag and state name placard for each attending state director.
Seating is organized by region. Only state directors or their authorized representatives are allowed to sit
at this table. Other conference attendees are asked to sit in the theater seating. Some of the general
session materials are available only to state directors.

Voting
NEMA committees will bring forward recommended position papers or resolutions to be voted on by
the states. Only state directors or their authorized representative have voting authority.

Networking
NEMA conferences offer an outstanding opportunity to exchange information, ideas and solutions with
your colleagues from across the nation. We encourage you to meet with your peers during the
receptions, at breaks and meals, and in the complimentary hospitality suites.

NEMA Staff
The NEMA Staff is available throughout the conference to answer questions and provide assistance in
order to make your conference experience valuable and enjoyable.

NEMA Membership
If you are not a NEMA member, please consider joining. Membership information is at the registration
desk and is also available online at http://www.nemaweb.org.


NEMA 2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE • Agenda
October 9 – 13, 2009
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Serious Business for Serious Times
Friday, October 9
7:30 am – 3:30 pm
Conference Registration
Union Foyer
7:30 – 8:15 am
Coffee Break
Union Foyer
8:30 ‐ 11:30 am
NEMA‐FEMA Hosted Disaster Declaration Workshop Union DE
This advanced workshop is for State emergency management and FEMA
personnel only. 
Moderator: Mike Womack, Director
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency
Workshop Participants:

Beth Zimmerman, Assistant Administrator for Disaster Assistance,
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Peggy Miller, Chief, Declarations Unit
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Janet Odeshoo, Acting Regional Administrator, Region V
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Christine Stack, Director, Disaster Assistance Division, Region V
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Tom Balint, Deputy Attorney General, New Jersey and
Chair, NEMA Legal Counsel Committee

Karen Mills, Administrator, Small Business Administration (invited)

James Rivera, Acting Assistant Administrator for Disaster
Operations, Small Business Administration (invited)
1 ‐ 3 pm
NEMA Board of Directors Meeting
Marion
2 – 8 pm
Exhibitor Set‐up
Union Foyer
3 – 5 pm
State Hazard Mitigation Officers Meeting
Franklin D
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Legal Counsel Committee Meeting
Franklin C
3:30 ‐ 5:30 pm
State Director Executive Session (closed meeting)
Franklin AB
For State Directors only
6 – 7 pm
New Directors Welcome Reception
Peppercorn
For State Emergency Management Directors and Past Presidents only
 
6 – 11 pm
Hospitality Suite
Presidential Suite
 
Hosted by URS/EG&G
Saturday, October 10
7:30 am – 3:30 pm
Conference Registration & Exhibits
Union Foyer
7:30 – 8:15 am
Coffee Break
Union FoyerPage 10
8 – 10 am
Mitigation Committee Meeting
Franklin C
10:15 am – 12:15 pm
EMAC Executive Task Force Meeting
Union A
10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Workshop: Lessons Learned from Recent Disasters
Union DE
Hear about response and recovery successes and challenges from States
that have experienced recent disasters.  These are practical lessons that
are directly transferrable between States whatever the hazards you face.
 
Moderator:
   

Albert Ashwood, Director, Oklahoma Emergency Management Agency
 
Panelists:

2009 Kentucky Ice Storm
Brigadier General John Heltzel, Director
Kentucky Division of Emergency Management
 
2009 North Dakota Flood
Greg Wilz, Homeland Security Director
North Dakota Department of Emergency Services
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Buffet Luncheon
Franklin AB
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Past Presidents Working Luncheon
Marion
1:30 – 3 pm
Workshop: Social Networks
Union DE
This workshop will focus on the challenges, as well as the opportunities
of web 2.0 technologies and social networking in the emergency
management environment. Using case studies and examples, the panel
will explore the benefits and challenges facing state emergency
management leaders as they make policy, procedural and operational
decisions on the use of emerging technologies. The panel will explore
legal, technological, and public perception aspects as well as discuss
how effectiveness of these tools might be measured.
 
Moderator: Glen Woodbury, Director, Center for Homeland Defense
and Security, Naval Postgraduate School
Panelists:
 Ruben Almaguer, Interim Director,
Florida Division of Emergency Management
 Tom Congdon, Legal Counsel,
Florida Department of Emergency Management
 John Bilotta, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, Naval
Postgraduate School
Workshop: Climate Change
Union BC
Most experts agree that climate change is real. Emergency managers
must plan for its implications. Hear about the latest studies regarding
the impact and what your State may need to do to prepare.   Page 11

Moderator: Bruce Baughman, NEMA Past President
Panelists:

Joel Smith, Member, National Academy of Sciences “Panel on
Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change”

Mark Crowell, Physical Scientist ,
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Jeff Rogers, Professor, Dept. of Geography & Atmospheric Science
Program, Ohio State University and State Climatologist

David Kaufman, Director, Office of Policy and Program Analysis,
Federal Emergency Management Agency
3:15 – 5:15 pm
EMAC Committee Meeting
Franklin CD
5:30 – 7 pm
Exhibits Reception
Union Foyer
All conference attendees are encouraged to visit the sponsor/exhibitor
booths to thank them for their support and to learn about the products
and services available to assist emergency managers.
7 – 11 pm
Hospitality Suite
Presidential Suite
Hosted by ALIS
Sunday, October 11
7:30 am – 3:30 pm
Conference Registration & Exhibits
Union Foyer
7:30 – 8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
Union Foyer
8 – 10 am
Response & Recovery Committee Meeting
Franklin CD
10:30 am – 12 pm
Workshop: Pandemic Influenza –Current Challenges Union BC
This workshop will focus on three areas that have continued to present
challenges for States in addressing the H1N1 virus:  continuity of
operations; legal issues; and messaging.   
 
Moderator:
Steve Wagner, Chief, Office of Health Preparedness,
Ohio Department of Health
Panelists:

Mitchell Bailey, Assistant Deputy Director,
Ohio Department of Administrative Services

Tom Balint, Deputy Attorney General,
New Jersey and Chair, NEMA Legal Counsel Committee

Andrew Velasquez, Director,
Illinois Emergency Management Agency
Workshop: Model Practices
Union DE
for State Housing Task Forces
The FEMA National Housing Strategy calls for every State to establish a
Disaster Housing Task Force.  This session will showcase States that have
implemented them and their “road map” for success.Page 12

Moderator: Mike Womack, Director,
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and
Chair, NEMA Response & Recovery Committee
Panelists:

John Madden, Director, Alaska Division of Homeland Security &
Emergency Management

Kris Eide, Director, Minnesota Division of Homeland Security &
Emergency Management

Rafaela Monchek, Interim Deputy Director, National Disaster
Housing Task Force, Federal Emergency Management Agency
11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Buffet Luncheon
Franklin ABC
1:15 – 3:15 pm
Homeland Security Committee Meeting
Union ABC
3:30 – 5:30 pm
Preparedness Committee Meeting
Union ABC
5:30 – 11 pm
Exhibitor tear‐down
Union Foyer
6 pm
Buses depart hotel for President’s Reception
6:30 – 8:30 pm
President’s Reception – Franklin Park Conservatory
For all conference registrants
8:30 pm
Buses depart reception for hotel
8:30 – 11 pm
Hospitality Suite
Presidential Suite
Hosted by WeatherBug
Monday, October 12
7:30 am – 3:30 pm
Conference Registration
Union Foyer
7:30 – 8:15 am
Continental Breakfast
Union Foyer
8 – 10 am
Private Sector Committee Meeting
Union ABC
8 – 10 am
Pacific & Territorial Caucus Meeting
Union D
10:15 am – 12:15 pm
Legislative Committee Meeting
Union ABC
12:30 – 1:45 pm
Luncheon
Franklin Room
Luncheon Remarks:
 Major General, Greg Wayt, Ohio Adjutant General and
President, Adjutants’ General Association of the United States
 Russ Decker, Director, Allen Co. Ohio Emergency Management and
President, International Association of Emergency Managers
NEMA 35th Anniversary
To cap NEMA’s 35th Anniversary celebration year, President Nancy Dragani will make a check presentation Page 13

to benefit the IAEM Student Scholarship Program and future emergency management professionals.
2 – 5 pm
General Session
Regency Ballroom (3rd floor)
 Call to Order and Presentation of Colors
 Pledge of Allegiance
 Roll Call
2:15 – 2:45 pm
The Honorable Craig Fugate, Administrator
Federal Emergency Management Agency
2:45 ‐4:15 pm
Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Emergency Management
Moderator: Nancy Dragani, NEMA President
Panelists:

Craig Fugate, Administrator,
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Tim Manning, Deputy Administrator for National Preparedness
Federal Emergency Management Agency

David Maxwell, Director and Homeland Security Advisor
Arkansas Department of Emergency Management

Dr. Paul Stockton, Assistant Secretary for Homeland Defense and
America’s Security Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense

Dr. Christopher Bellavita, Academic Programs Director, Center for
Homeland Defense & Security, Naval Postgraduate School
4:15 – 4:30 pm
Break
Regency Foyer
4:30 – 5 pm
NEMA Business Session

Voting on NEMA Committee Position Papers and Resolutions

Secretary’s Report – Ken Murphy for Sec. John Gibb

Treasurer’s Report – Barbara Farr

Election of Officers – Ken Murphy, Past President

Exchange of Gavel – Nancy Dragani and Dave Maxwell

Remarks by incoming NEMA President David Maxwell
6 – 8:30 pm
State Dinner & Awards Ceremony
Franklin Room

Dinner Entertainment: Jack Hanna & His Animals [SEE THIS F*CKING SHIT?  AFTER BEING INDOCTRINATED AND CONDITIONED TO SUPPORT AND SET IN MOTION A LUCIFERIAN CONTROL GRID THROUGHOUT THE HOME OF THE FREE, THE CONSCIOUS IS NOT ALLOWED TO DEAL WITH THE OBVIOUS MORAL IMPLICATIONS BECAUSE THE PARTICIPANTS ARE QUICKLY DISTRACTED WITH THIS BULLSHIT!]

Presentation of EMAP Distinguished Service Award

Presentation of Lacy E. Suiter Distinguished Service Award

Recognition of outgoing NEMA President Nancy Dragani



NEMA 2009 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Speaker Bios
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RUBEN ALMAGUER
Ruben Almaguer was appointed the state director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management following the
presidential appointment of W. Craig Fugate as FEMA Administrator in May 2009. He joined the division in January
2007 when Governor Charlie Crist appointed him the first‐ever deputy director for the agency. With more than 20
years experience in the fire service, Mr. Almaguer has responded to over 25 local, national and international
disasters, including earthquakes in Turkey, Taiwan, Columbia and Venezuela, the Oklahoma City bombing, the 9/11
Pentagon attack, hurricanes in Guatemala, Florida and the Caribbean and floods in Africa.
ALBERT ASHWOOD
Albert Ashwood was appointed director of the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (OEM) in August
1997. In his tenure with OEM, Mr. Ashwood has overseen the distribution and administration of over $500 million
in federal and state aid following dozens of presidentially declared disasters, including the terrorist bombing of the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Following the bombing, he was first on the scene for the
department, arriving approximately 25 minutes after the explosion. Because of his experience with the bombing
and at the request of New York Governor George Pataki, Mr. Ashwood spent two weeks at ground zero helping
establish and implement debris removal operations related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. In addition
to numerous other appointments, he served on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National
Advisory Council (NAC), advising the FEMA Administrator on preparedness and emergency management issues.
He is also a former President of NEMA.
MITCHELL BAILEY
Mitchell Bailey serves as the business continuity manager for the Ohio Department of Administrative Services
(DAS). In this position, he is the department’s pandemic influenza coordinator and acts as a liaison to the Ohio
Emergency Management Agency. Before joining DAS in February 2007, Bailey was the manager of community
relations for the Montgomery County (OH) Treasurer’s Office. From 2000 – 2006, he worked for Kids Voting, a
national, non‐profit, civics and voter education program as state executive director in Kentucky, national manager
of affiliate relations in Arizona and regional executive director in Dayton, Ohio.
THOMAS BALINT
Thomas Balint Jr. is a deputy attorney general with the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, representing the
State Office of Emergency Management. He has served as counsel to the Office of Emergency Management since
June 2001, drafting emergency declarations, providing legal advice and other legal services on state emergency
operations, including several presidential declared disasters such as the New Jersey emergency declaration for the
September 11 terrorist attacks and the August 2003 northeast blackout. Mr. Balint assisted the Emergency
Management Assistance Compact during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, providing legal advice on issues related to
the largest mutual aid emergency deployment in history.
BRUCE BAUGHMAN
For more than three and a half decades, Bruce Baughman has served in key Federal and state emergency
management positions for some of the largest natural and man‐made disasters ever to hit the U.S. and its
territories, including 13 major hurricanes, the Oklahoma City bombing and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to his
2003 retirement from FEMA, Mr. Baughman held several senior positions including Director of the Office of
National Preparedness and the Director of Operations. While at FEMA, he directed response operations for more
than 110 presidential disaster and emergency declarations. Mr. Baughman also participated in the planning for
over 25 special events to include the 1996 Summer Olympics, the 2002 Winter Olympics, the WTO meetings, three
Presidential Inaugurations and the G‐8 Summit. Mr. Baughman is currently a senior consultant for several large
companies and organizations. Projects include supporting the National Academy of Sciences’ report on climate
change and serving on NOAA’s Science Advisory Board’s technology working group. He is also a former director of
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CHRISTOPHER BELLAVITA
Christopher Bellavita is the academics program director for the Center for Homeland Defense and Security at the
Naval Postgraduate School. Before joining NPS, Mr. Bellavita was a senior fellow at the Oquirrh Institute in Utah.
From 1998 through 2002, he was the planning coordinator for the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command. Prior to
working on the 2002 Olympics, Dr. Bellavita was responsible for special event training for the Department of
Defense's Office of Special Events. In that capacity, he helped to support DoD activities in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic
and Paralympics Games, 1994 World Cup, 1992 Barcelona Olympics and other major sporting and international
security events.
JOHN BILOTTA
John Bilotta is a founding partner in a Washington, DC strategic communication firm that focuses on risk and crisis
communication issues facing the public and private sector. Mr. Bilotta also works with the Naval Postgraduate
School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security as its senior risk communication advisor. Since the end of
2003, he has helped design scenarios and participated in more than 100 homeland security seminars for
governors, mayors and their senior staffs. During a nearly 20 year career as a print and broadcast journalist, Mr.
Bilotta was based in London, Moscow, Tokyo and Washington DC, where he was a producer for the ABC News
magazine shows Prime Time and 20/20. While overseas, Mr. Bilotta helped cover the collapse of the Soviet Union,
wars in Chechnya and Bosnia, the Russian presidential elections and the rise of organized crime in Eastern Europe.
THOMAS CONGDON
Thomas Congdon has served as the chief counsel to the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management
for the last three years. Prior to this, Mr. Congdon served as an assistant general counsel under then Attorney
General and current Florida Governor Charlie Crist. Mr. Congdon moved to Florida from Albany, New York where
he served as a Legislative Director for a State Senator for approximately 14 years. During his tenure, Mr. Congdon
has served as the principal legal advisor to Florida’s State Coordinating Officer during eight major disaster
declarations and nine Fire Management Assistance Grants.
MARK CROWELL
Mark Crowell is a geologist and has worked for FEMA for the past 20 years, mainly on coastal erosion, coastal
flooding and climate change issues. During his career at FEMA, he has authored or coauthored 15 papers that have
been published in peer‐reviewed journals, including the Journal of Coastal Research (JCR), and Shore and Beach.
Mark Crowell is also senior author of an article titled, “Erosion: Historical Analysis and Forecasting,” that appeared
in the Encyclopedia of Coastal Science, published in 2005. His most recent paper has been accepted for publication
(2009) in JCR and is titled: “An Estimate of the U.S. Population Living in 100‐yr Coastal Flood Hazard Areas.”
RUSSELL DECKER
Russell J. Decker, CEM, currently serves as President for the International Association of Emergency Managers
(IAEM‐USA), the nation’s largest emergency management professional association. Mr. Decker is director of the
Allen County Office of Homeland Security & Emergency Management in Lima, Ohio. In 2007, Russ was appointed
to the FEMA National Advisory Council where he currently chairs the subcommittee on NIMS.
KRIS EIDE
Kris Eide was named the director of Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management in October 2005.
She brings more than 28 years of experience in emergency preparedness and response to the job, including serving
as the Governor’s Authorized Representative and State Coordinating Officer for seven presidential declarations.
During her career, she has also been a subject matter expert for the International Atomic Energy Agency, assisting
Russia and Turkey with emergency preparedness efforts. Currently, she is a member of the board of directors for
NEMA and is also the chair for the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) Committee.
CRAIG FUGATE
W. Craig Fugate began serving in the position of administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) in May 2009. Prior to joining FEMA, Mr. Fugate was the director of the Florida Division of Emergency
Management (FDEM) since 2001. During his years at FDEM, Mr. Fugate served as the State Coordinating Officer in
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He began his emergency management career as a volunteer firefighter, emergency paramedic, and finally as a
lieutenant with the Alachua County Fire Rescue. Eventually, he moved from exclusive fire rescue operations to
serving as the emergency manager for Alachua County in Gainesville, Florida. In September 2003, again under Mr.
Fugate's stewardship, Florida became the first statewide emergency management program in the nation to receive
full accreditation from the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP).
JOHN HELTZEL
In July 2008, Brigadier General John Heltzel accepted the appointment by Governor Steven L. Beshear to direct the
Kentucky Division of Emergency Management. Within his capacity as director, General Heltzel is responsible for
coordinating all resources of state and federal government in the event of natural or manmade disasters and
emergencies throughout the Commonwealth. He received his military commission in the Kentucky National Guard
in 1979. Since then, he has served in numerous leadership positions. In 2007, General Heltzel was selected to serve
as the Deputy Commander of Kentucky’s Joint Force Headquarters where he is directly responsible for the training
of the Kentucky National Guard in support of the Homeland Security Mission. The next year, he led one of the
largest seismic exercises ever conducted in the Commonwealth. The CATOPS 08 Exercise was designed to prepare
the National Guard, Emergency Management and the Commonwealth for the potential response in the event of an
earthquake in the New Madrid Seismic Region on Kentucky’s western border. The general also has an extensive
background in information management and technology.
DAVID KAUFMAN
David J. Kaufman was appointed director of FEMA’s Office of Policy and Program Analysis (OPPA) in September
2009. In this position, he is responsible for providing leadership, analysis, coordination and decision‐making
support to the FEMA Administrator on a wide range of agency policies, plans, programs and key initiatives. His
previous service included establishing the Office of Preparedness Policy, Planning and Analysis in FEMA’s National
Preparedness Directorate; and acting director and deputy director of the Preparedness Programs Division in the
Office for Domestic Preparedness, where he oversaw the day‐to‐day activities of DHS’ $3 billion portfolio of state,
local and infrastructure preparedness assistance programs. He has also been a member of the faculty at the Naval
Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
JOHN MADDEN
John W. Madden was appointed director of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for the
State of Alaska in January 2007. His state service follows a distinguished career in seven federal agencies. Most
recently, he served with the Transportation Security Administration as assistant federal security director for
operations. He coordinated security policies, procedures, plans, and exercises with federal, state, and local
agencies throughout Alaska. Mr. Madden served in the U.S. Army for three years including twenty months in
Vietnam performing aviation direct support. After his military service, he joined the U.S. civil service with the
Department of the Navy. He worked in program and project management with the Naval Weapons Engineering
Support Activity, Naval Electronic Systems Command, and the Joint Cruise Missile Project Office. He then joined
the Department of Energy working on fossil fuels programs and research and development into alternative fuels. In
1982, he elected to move to Alaska with the National Weather Service, supporting its operations throughout
Alaska and traveling extensively to maintain the remote weather observation sites.
TIM MANNING
Tim Manning is the deputy administrator of the National Preparedness Directorate (NPD) at the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The Directorate has six business units with more than 300 personnel
who are charged with providing guidance, programs, activities and services to prepare the Nation to prevent,
protect from, respond to and recover from all hazards. Prior to this assignment, he was the secretary of the New
Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and Homeland Security Advisor to the
Governor. In addition to the State's intelligence and anti‐terrorism programs, Deputy Administrator Manning also
oversaw the daily administration of the State's disaster and emergency preparedness, mitigation, response, and
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DAVID MAXWELL
Mr. David Maxwell was appointed director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management (ADEM) and
State Homeland Security Adviser in June 2006. He had previously served as the deputy director with 30 years of
service to the agency. In 1978, he began his career in emergency management working in temporary housing for
the state after major flooding in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was promoted to planning specialist in 1980. Later, he
advanced to ADEM’s plans and operations division manager. Mr. Maxwell also served as the designated State
Coordinating Officer for seven federally declared disasters and one federally declared emergency. He is the
incoming president of NEMA and vice chair on the board of directors of the Central United States Earthquake
Consortium (CUSEC).
RAFAELA MONCHEK
Rafaela Monchek currently serves as the interim deputy director for FEMA’s interagency National Disaster Housing
Task Force and as the special assistant to the FEMA deputy administrator. Prior to joining FEMA, Rafaela served as
a program analyst at the department of the Interior's South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force Office,
responsible for the federal, state, local, and tribal coordination of the Everglades restoration program. Following
Hurricane Katrina, Ms. Monchek accepted a disaster assistance employee position with FEMA Region IV. She
returned to Mississippi to coordinate the group site housing program, and later opened and managed the
Mississippi Maintenance and Applicant Support Call Center to assist direct housing recipients, and applicants in
need of individual assistance following Hurricane Katrina.
JEFF ROGERS
Jeffrey Rogers is a professor in the Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science Program at The Ohio State
University. He also serves as the state climatologist for Ohio. His academic research focuses on United States
climate variability occurring during the last one to two centuries and he has published papers on historical
droughts in Ohio and on the role of El Niño in Ohio precipitation variability.
JOEL SMITH
Joel B. Smith, a principal with Stratus Consulting, has been analyzing climate change impacts and adaptation issues
for more than 20 years. He was a coordinating lead author for the synthesis chapter on climate change impacts for
the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was a lead author for the
IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report. Mr. Smith was also recently nominated to be on the National Academy of
Sciences “Panel on Adapting to the Impacts of Climate Change.” He has provided technical advice, guidance, and
training on assessing climate change impacts and adaptation to people around the world and for clients such as
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the World Bank, the United Nations, the Pew Center on Global Climate
Change and the Rockefeller Foundation. Much of his experience was gained at the U.S. EPA, where he was the
deputy director of the Climate Change Division. Over his career, he has written extensively on climate change. This
has included more than thirty published articles and chapters in peer‐reviewed journals and books.
PAUL STOCKTON
Paul N. Stockton was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the assistant secretary of defense for Homeland
Defense and Americas’ Security Affairs earlier this year and was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in May 2009. In this
position, he is responsible for the supervision of homeland defense activities, defense support of civil authorities,
and Western Hemisphere security affairs for the Department of Defense. Prior to his confirmation, Mr. Stockton
was a senior research scholar at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation. He joined
the Naval Postgraduate School in August 1990 and has served in several positions, including most recently as
director of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security where he helped develop the curricula to strengthen U.
S. all‐hazards preparedness at local, state, and Federal levels.
ANDREW VELASQUEZ
Andrew Velasquez III was appointed director of the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) on March 16,
2007. As director, Mr. Velasquez oversees Illinois' disaster preparedness and response, nuclear safety and
homeland security programs, as well as the agency's 250+ employees and a budget of more than $470 million.
Since November 2007, he also has served as the Illinois Homeland Security Advisor. At IEMA, Mr. Velasquez has
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State, severe storms, ice storms and the campus shooting event at Northern Illinois University. Most recently, Mr.
Velasquez directed the disaster response and recovery efforts for the record mid west flooding that impacted
multiple regions in Illinois. Mr. Velasquez has served as the state coordinating officer and the governor's
authorized representative for eight presidential disaster declarations.
STEVE WAGNER
Steve Wagner is the chief of the Office of Health Preparedness at the Ohio Department of Health. He is the
coordinator for the agency’s preparedness and response to disasters and is the principal investigator on the CDC
cooperative agreement for Public Health and Emergency Preparedness and the ASPR Hospital Bioterrorism grant.
Prior to this, he managed the Bureau of Environmental Health for nine years.
GREGORY WAYT
Major General Gregory L. Wayt assumed the duties as the Adjutant General, Joint Force Headquarters ‐ Ohio in
July 2004. He is a member of the Governor's cabinet and is responsible for the operations of the Adjutant
General's Department and the military preparedness of the Ohio Militia. The organized militia consists of the Ohio
Army National Guard, Ohio Air National Guard, Ohio Military Reserve, and Ohio Naval Militia, totaling more than
16,000 personnel. He supervises four flag officer heads of these components and four deputy directors in the day‐
to‐day operation and management of the fiscal, personnel, equipment, and real property resources of these
military organizations and state agencies.
GREG WILZ
Greg was named the Homeland Security Division Director and State Security Advisor in January 2006. Since Mr.
Wilz’ appointment, he has reorganized the Department of Emergency Services into two divisions and restructured
the state’s planning and response process to take a proactive approach in supporting local governments. He has
also supported five presidential declared disasters and numerous state‐declared emergencies over the same
period. Mr. Wilz is a retired colonel from the North Dakota National Guard. During his 31‐year career, Mr. Wilz
served as commander of the North Dakota Military Academy and Engineering School, the Adjutant General’s
Executive Staff Support Officer, battalion commander, and director of Military Support. Prior to his appointment,
he was president of Innovative Leadership Solutions, Inc., an organizational development consulting company
based in Bismarck and Fargo.
MIKE WOMACK
Mike Womack was appointed executive director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) in
December 2006. Prior to this position, Mr. Womack served as the agency’s deputy director and the response and
recovery director. In 2005, he was the state coordinating officer during Hurricane Katrina, where he was
responsible for coordinating the State of Mississippi’s resources as well as the massive amount of resources
provided by other states through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact. Mr. Womack served 29 years
in active and reserve military service as a full time lieutenant colonel for the Mississippi Army National Guard. Mr.
Womack is a regional vice president for NEMA, chair of the NEMA Response and Recovery Committee as well as a
member of the board of directors for the Central United States Earthquake Consortium.
GLEN WOODBURY
Glen Woodbury is the director of the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security,
responsible for leading the center’s strategic commitment to servicing the homeland security priorities of the U.S.
Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, as well as local, state, tribal and federal agencies. He served as
the director of the Emergency Management Division for the State of Washington from 1998 through 2004. In this
capacity, he directed the state’s response to numerous emergencies, disasters and heightened security threats,
including the World Trade Organization disturbance in Seattle in 1999, the Nisqually Earthquake in February 2001,
the 2003 TOPOFF II Exercise, the national response to the attacks of September 11th, and many other incidents. In
addition to many other leadership positions, Mr. Woodbury is a past president of the NEMA and was chairman of
the board of directors for the Center for State Homeland Security. Page 49

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[Dig]

Bobbie Greene Kilberg
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bobbie_Greene_Kilberg

Bobbie Kilberg "was named President of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) in September 1998. As President, Mrs. Kilberg manages the largest technology council in the nation with about 1,300 member companies employing 170,000 people. In December 2001, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

"Bobbie Kilberg graduated from Yale University Law School in 1969 after earning a Masters Degree in Political Science from Columbia University and a Bachelors Degree from Vassar College. In 1969, she was named a White House Fellow and served first on the staff of the Domestic Policy Council in the Nixon White House and then as a Staff Assistant to the President. From 1971 to 1973, Mrs. Kilberg was an attorney with the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter. In 1973, she became Vice President for Academic Affairs at Mount Vernon College, a role that included responsibility for strategic direction and institutional management.

"Bobbie Kilberg returned to the White House from 1975 through 1976 under President Ford as Associate Counsel to the President, where she focused on a variety of legal matters, including international trade, civil rights, and the arts. In 1978, she joined the Aspen Institute, where she directed a project on the future of private philanthropy. In 1982, she became Vice President and General Counsel of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. Among her projects at the Center was management of a high tech working group that studied the use of information technology in political campaigns.

"From 1989 to 1992, Bobbie Kilberg served President Bush in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison. In this post, she directed communications and policy relations between the White House and all interest groups in the country, with a special emphasis on the business community. For the last months of 1992, she became Director of the President's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, where she managed White House communications and policy relations with state and local elected officials, including governors, attorneys general, state legislators, county officials and mayors. In October 1998, Mrs. Kilberg was appointed by the Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates to serve on the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Legislative Compensation and since 2000 she has served on the Joint Judicial Advisory Committee of the Virginia General Assembly for the merit selection of judges. She also serves on the Attorney General of Virginia's Identity Theft Task Force, the Executive Board of Advisors for George Mason University's School of Law Tech Center and George Mason's School of IT & Engineering Advisory Board. She is a member of the Committee of 100 of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Bobbie Kilberg's most recent awards were the 2001 Anti-Defamation League's Woman of Achievement Award and the 2003 Girls Inc. D.C. Celebration Honoree Award.

"Bobbie Kilberg has been very involved in her community. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of George Washington University, the Board of Directors of United Bank, and the Board of Directors of the Northern Virginia Technology Council Foundation. She also is a Board member and Senior Advisor to Grandma Rita's Children, a special trips camp for needy and abused children, and a member of the Board of Directors of WETA, Washington's public television station. Mrs. Kilberg formerly served on the Board of Trustees/Directors of Potomac School, the U.S. Naval Academy (Board of Visitors), Wolf Trap Associates, the Lab School of Washington, the Mental Health Association of Northern Virginia, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, and the Council for America's First Freedom. She is a member of the Women's Forum of Washington, DC.


Name: Bobbie Greene Kilberg
http://info.tpj.org/pioneers/bobbie_kilberg.html
Occupation: President, Northern Virginia Technology Council

Kilberg became head in �98 of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), a regional high-tech industry group that represents the local offices of such companies as AOL and EDS. NVTC claimed credit in 2000 for lobbying Virginia to become the first state in the nation to enact a commercial code governing Internet-based electronic contracts. Back before Al Gore invented the Internet, Kilberg worked as an attorney at the DC corporate firm of Arnold & Porter. She was also a White House aide to presidents Nixon, Ford and Bush. For President Bush, she directed communications and policy relations between the White House and all interest groups in the United States, with a special emphasis on the business community.


Bobbie Greene Kilberg
www.nvtc.org/media/062707kit/KilbergBio.pdf
President & CEO
Northern Virginia Technology Council
Bobbie Greene Kilberg was named President & CEO of the
Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) in
September 1998. As President & CEO, Bobbie leads and
manages the largest technology council in the nation with
about 1,100 member companies employing 200,000 people.
NVTC is recognized as the nation’s leader in providing its
technology community with networking and educational
events, specialized services and benefits, public policy
advocacy, branding of its region as a major global technology
center, initiatives in targeted business sectors and in the
international, entrepreneurship, workforce and education
arenas, and a foundation—the Equal Footing Foundation—
focusing on venture philanthropy and public/private
partnerships.
In December 2001, Bobbie was appointed by President
George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and
Technology (PCAST). She is a graduate of Yale University Law School and also earned a master’s
degree in political science from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College.
She was selected as a White House Fellow (class of ’69-’70) and served first on the staff of the
Domestic Policy Council in the Nixon White House and then as a Staff Assistant to the President.
From 1971 to 1973, Bobbie was an attorney with the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter. In
1973, she became Vice President for Academic Affairs at Mount Vernon College, a role that included
responsibility for strategic direction and institutional management.
Bobbie returned to the White House from 1975 through 1976 under President Ford as Associate
Counsel to the President, focusing on a variety of legal matters, including international trade, civil
rights and the arts. In 1978, she joined the Aspen Institute as director of a project on the future of
private philanthropy. In 1982, she became Vice President and General Counsel of the Roosevelt
Center for American Policy Studies. Among her projects at the Center was management of a high
tech working group that studied the use of information technology in political campaigns.
From 1989 to 1992, Bobbie served President Bush in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the
President for Public Liaison, responsible for communications and policy relations with the various
interest groups in the country with a special emphasis on the business community. In March 1992,
she became Director of the President’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, where she managed
White House communications and policy relations with state and local elected officials, including
governors, attorneys general, state legislators, county officials and mayors. Page 2

In Virginia, Bobbie has served on the Speaker of the House of Delegates’ Citizens Advisory
Committee on Legislative Compensation, on the Joint Judicial Advisory Committee of the Virginia
General Assembly for the merit selection of judges, on the Attorney General’s Task Forces on
Identity Theft and on Regulatory Reform and Economic Development, on the Executive Board of
Advisors for George Mason University’s School of Law Tech Center, on the Governor’s Northern
Virginia BRAC Working Group, and on the Attorney General’s Task Force on Youth Internet
Safety.
Bobbie has been very involved in her community. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of
George Washington University and its Homeland Security Policy Institute’s Steering Committee and
of WETA, Washington’s public television station, as well as the Board of Directors of the Wolf Trap
Foundation for the Performing Arts, the Equal Footing Foundation and the Greater Washington
Sports Alliance. She also serves as a Board member and Senior Advisor to Grandma Rita’s Children,
a special trips camp for at-risk children. Bobbie is a member of the Board of Directors of United
Bank and Luna Innovations, Inc. and is an Advisory Board member of ObjectVideo and LeapFrog
Solutions. She formerly served on the Board of Trustees/Directors of Potomac School, the U.S.
Naval Academy (Board of Visitors), Wolf Trap Associates, the Lab School of Washington, the
Mental Health Association of Northern Virginia, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and the
Council for America’s First Freedom. Bobbie is a member of the Women’s Forum of Washington,
DC and the Committee of 100 of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Bobbie’s most recent awards are the 2001 Anti-Defamation League’s Women of Achievement
Award, Volunteer Fairfax’s 2003 Community Champion Award, the 2003 Girls Inc. D.C. Celebration
Honoree Award, the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Technology and a 2005
Women Who Mean Business Award from the Washington Business Journal.


THIS IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT SET GLOBALIST CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND PROPAGANDIZE IT TO THE PEOPLE.

THIS LOOKS LIKE HASAN WAS SET UP IN PLAIN SITE EITHER AS A LESSON TO THE OTHERS OR FOR SOME UNEXPLAINED REASON. VERY INTERESTING.

[Mike Philbin]

You'd imagine this'd be a story John Ronson's liberated Free Press would love to get their journalistic teeth into.



No?

THIS IS A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT SET GLOBALIST CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT POLICY AND PROPAGANDIZE IT TO THE PEOPLE.

THIS LOOKS LIKE HASAN WAS SET UP IN PLAIN SITE EITHER AS A LESSON TO THE OTHERS OR FOR SOME UNEXPLAINED REASON. VERY INTERESTING.

[Dig]

they said there are dozens of emails between him and some crazy terrorist leader and that the Pentagon/DoD/FBI do not know completely about these emails or that the emails did not warrant further investigation.

Well a few things are definitely possible...

1] This guy was involved in some of the most deceptive teams regarding homeland security/terrorism. he could have been part of some infiltration technique used to set up these crazy terrorist leaders (plausible but does not seem like a sure thing).

2] The people managing these ancillary investigative services for the FBI/DoD (companies  like CACI/Kroll/SITE) regularly lie about the intelligence information (that might be the most likely, but not sure)

3] The crazy terrosit leader is another controlled opposition CIA agent/assett like Osama Bin Laden, Zakawii, all the rest (this seems real likely and probably why this area of investigation will be dropped because then it would reveal that this guy is a CIA assett to provoke and assist the Terrorist Indiustrial Complex by having an enemy that otherwise would not exist).


I AM THINKING THAT OPTION 3 IS LOOKING MORE AND MORE LIKELY!

We also have him as a member of the 9/11 hijackers' mosque. WELL THE 9/11 HIIJACKERS WERE PART OF A CIA PROJECT!

THE MOSQUE IS PROBABLY ALSO A CIA FRONT!

[Dig]

A Sibel Edmonds 'Bombshell'
Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until at least 9/11/2001
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7332
By Brad Friedman on 7/31/2009 1:07PM  

Edmonds expert fills in details from recent BRAD BLOG interview with noted, gagged FBI translator/whistleblower...

During my recent interview with FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds on the Mike Malloy Show, a caller had asked her opinion on whether she believed 9/11 to have been "an inside job."

Edmonds replied by first specifying "As I have done for the past 7 or 8 years, I have basically stuck with what I know, first-hand, directly, my own knowledge, based on my own experience, based on what I obtained, which is not a lot, but it is extremely important."

After explaining the difference between what she does and doesn't know first hand, she went on to explain: "I have information about things that our government has lied to us about. I know. For example, to say that since the fall of the Soviet Union we ceased all of our intimate relationship with Bin Laden and the Taliban - those things can be proven as lies, very easily, based on the information they classified in my case, because we did carry very intimate relationship with these people, and it involves Central Asia, all the way up to September 11." ...


Her complete response, pulled from the lengthy interview (full, commercial-free audio here) has been transcribed by Luke Ryland, perhaps the world's foremost expert in all things Sibel Edmonds related.

Today in a highly-recommended diary at dKos, Ryland filled in a good chunk of details from Edmonds' references, reporting that her comments are, in fact, a "bombshell"...
Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds dropped a bombshell on the Mike Malloy radio show, guest-hosted by Brad Friedman (audio, partial transcript).


In the interview, Sibel says that the US maintained 'intimate relations' with Bin Laden, and the Taliban, "all the way until that day of September 11."

These 'intimate relations' included using Bin Laden for 'operations' in Central Asia, including Xinjiang, China. These 'operations' involved using al Qaeda and the Taliban in the same manner "as we did during the Afghan and Soviet conflict," that is, fighting 'enemies' via proxies.

As Sibel has previously described, and as she reiterates in this latest interview, this process involved using Turkey (with assistance from 'actors from Pakistan, and Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia') as a proxy, which in turn used Bin Laden and the Taliban and others as a proxy terrorist army.

After filling in many of the details, with scores of informational links to support the allegations, Ryland summarizes thusly:
The bombshell here is obviously that certain people in the US were using Bin Laden up to September 11, 2001.


It is important to understand why: the US outsourced terror operations to al Qaeda and the Taliban for many years, promoting the Islamization of Central Asia in an attempt to personally profit off military sales as well as oil and gas concessions.

The silence by the US government on these matters is deafening. So, too, is the blowback.


Good Morning America learns that Bin Laden is CIA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGXVic15ho

CIA missed chance with Bin Laden Laden
http://media.www.ntdaily.com/media/storage/paper877/news/2005/08/31/Views/Cia-Missed.Chance.With.Bin.Laden.Lladen-1893948.shtml

Posted: 8/31/05

After a report was delivered to Congress on the evening of August 23, information of a classified document spanning hundreds of pages detailing the Central Intelligence Agency's intelligence failures prior to Sept. 11 became known to the public.

CIA Inspector General John Helgerson told director Porter Goss that the findings warrant an accountability board to take disciplinary action against current and former CIA employees.

This accountability board being authorized by Goss, much less making groundbreaking findings, is highly unlikely. For one thing, Goss is an undeniably partisan appointee. He is the only congressman other than George Bush, Sr. to take over the top CIA post, and his investigation into the Valerie Plame affair has been practically non-existent.

Both presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush held the presidency during George Tenet's tenure, so any criticisms of Tenet will lead back to the presidency. Neither side wants that.

Clinton missed opportunities during his presidency to capture Osama Bin Laden, including in the fall of 2000, when spy planes over Afghanistan sent video feeds to the CIA, showing a man that many intelligence analysts believe is bin Laden (NBC).

Under the Bush Administration's watch, according to French intelligence, Bin Laden was treated in an American hospital in Dubai for 10 days in July 2001, where he was visited by a CIA agent.

Former CIA Executive Director A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard (March 2001-November 2004), should be a target of any investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. Buzzy was the head of the A.B. Brown investment firm until 1998 when he came to the CIA as then-director George Tenet's counsel.

It was the Brown investing arm of Deutsche Bank/A.B. Brown (the largest bank in Europe) that in one trade made a $2.5 million profit in "put options" (bets a stock will fall) placed on United Airlines just prior to Sept. 11. That prize was never claimed.

Early this year, Krongard suggested capturing Bin Laden wasn't such a good idea, saying, "You can make the argument we're better off with him (at large). Because if something happens to bin Laden, you might fight a lot of people vying for his position and demonstrating how macho they are by unleashing a stream of terror."

Bin Laden was a CIA asset from 1979 to 1989, when he went under the codename of "Tim Osmond." The CIA's treatment of him, even after the rise of anti-Western Muslim extremism, leaves the possibility he remains an asset to this day. Also questionable was the Sept. 11 breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill of then House and Senate intelligence heads Porter Goss and Bob Graham with Mahmoud Ahmad, head of Pakistani intelligence. According to Indian intelligence, it was Ahmad's agency that had recently wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the lead hijacker.

The three were still eating as the planes hit the World Trade Center in New York. According to Senator Graham, during the meeting, "We were talking about terrorism, specifically terrorism generated from Afghanistan." Goss also has his hands dirty from Operation Mongoose (the plan to overthrow Castro) from his time as a CIA officer from 1962 to 1972.

As the 9/11 Commission showed, any investigative team from within the power structures of the U.S. government is going to come to the same conclusions: our government was not complicit, and any failings were an honest mistake.


Osama Bin Laden alias Tim Osman CIA Asset
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHj_qe2p3zs

Bin Laden and the CIA
Is Bush Guilty of Mass Murder?
http://www.counterpunch.org/nimmo01282003.html
By KURT NIMMO January 28, 2003

"How can you call George Bush a mass murderer?" a recent email asked. "In order for him to be classified as a mass murderer, he would have to kill all those people you say he's killed with his own hands."

Let us begin by using the logic of government, in particular the government of California when it prosecuted Charles Manson over thirty years ago. Manson did not personally murder Sharon Tate, et al, he ordered his crazed minions to do it. In fact, when the murders occurred, Manson wasn't even at the scene. Yet he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death (a sentence that was never carried out after California repealed in the death penalty in the early 70s).

If we use the above criteria, Bush is a mass murderer.

But then presidents are never prosecuted for murder, let alone convicted. Bush ordered the US military to bomb Afghanistan -- an act resulting in approximately five thousand murders -- supposedly to get bin Laden and his cronies who are believed to have perpetuated the 911 atrocities. Yet bin Laden was not killed or were any of his high-ranking followers. The people who died were mostly peasants and lowly Taliban. Exactly zero percent, far as we know, of these people were responsible for 911.

I will go one better.

Bush didn't kill bin Laden because the Saudi is a CIA asset. Bin Laden was the "Pearl Harbor" the neocons have talked about now for years, well before Bush was elected (excuse me, appointed) to the presidency.

It's common knowledge that bin Laden was funded by the CIA to fight the Soviet occupation troops in Afghanistan. Andrew Evered Allen, a reclusive millionaire and CIA insider, admitted as much in court documents. He also admitted the CIA is attempting to overthrow the government of Myanmar, or Burma.

Overthrowing governments and killing dissidents is what the CIA does.

Mark Zapezauer has written extensively on CIA operations in Afghanistan under the Reagan regime. Reagan and the CIA spent between five and six billion dollars to bankroll and equip the drug trafficking Afghan mujihadeen, the largest and most expensive operation ever conducted by the CIA. As Ahmed Rashid has detailed, between 1982 and 1992 some 35,000 Muslim radicals from 43 Islamic countries trained and fought with the Afghan mujihadeen. Reagan's CIA director, William Casey, orchestrated the recruitment and arming of these vicious anti-Soviet warriors.

One of these warriors was a young Saudi student, Osama bin Laden.

It's not like the CIA to let an asset like that wither on the vine, especially considering the well-documented connections between Bush Republicans and Osama bin Laden going back 20 or more years. (Read Michel Chossudovsky's "Who Is Osama Bin Laden?")

As Michael C. Ruppert points out, "Bin Laden's role has not just been as a practitioner of terrorist acts but as a trainer and supplier of terrorist organizations around the world. Included in bin Laden's coterie are terrorist groups linked to the Balkans, Albania, the KLA (a U.S. ally), and rebel groups leading the insurrection against Russia in Chechnya."

In other words, the CIA used the bin Laden network (the media calls it "al-Qaeda," although no such organization really exists) on several occasions. The CIA (and the Bush neocons) will use it again in the future. It's too valuable to eradicate.

Bush and the neocon chicken hawks tapped into this CIA-cultivated network well before 911. The neo-fascist PNAC (Project for the New American Century) organization (a "think tank" founded by the warmongers Robert Kagan and William Kristol) essentially sketched out the Bush worldview and plan of attack for global dominance, which naturally includes plenty of mass murder (no problem for the butcher of Texas, who oversaw the execution of 152 humans while governor).

As Australia's Sunday Herald reported last September, the Bush neocons-in-waiting (Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Dubya's little bother Jeb, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby) had PNAC contrive a "blueprint for maintaining global U.S. pre-eminence... and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests," an ambitious conspiracy to be carried out by "the cavalry on the new American frontier."

In other words, a diagram for mass murder on a global scale.

Remember: "international security order" is code for making sure US-backed brutal dictators rule over "strategic" places all over the world (places with a lot of valuable natural resources such as oil, diamonds, rainforests, minerals, agriculturally viable land, etc.); "international security order" translates into more torture, genocide, environmental degradation, and looting of water resources, social programs, schools, hospitals, etc., by banks and transnational corporations.

It's US foreign policy on steroids. It's the selfish and anti-social (or sociopathic) rich minority cannibalizing the vast majority of humanity for private gain. It's criminal -- and now it will include murder like we have not witnessed since WWII.

After PNAC drafted up this connivance, Bush had his little brother fix the election in Florida and the neo-fascist majority of the Supreme Court made sure it stuck. Computer voting machines owned by rich Republicans (i.e., Election Systems & Software and the McCarthy Group) will make sure it happens again. It essentially matters not if you vote, sit out elections, or write angry letters to your rich lawyer or business congress person.

All Bush needed to get the ball rolling was have the CIA engineer "some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor," an "opportunity of ages," as PNAC described it.

Deliverance came gift wrapped on September 11, 2001.

Unlike Clinton, who vacillated somewhat on the prospect of killing a lot of people in one fell swoop (he preferred to kill small numbers over a long period of time), Bush has no problem ordering the mass murder of 500,000 or more humans in one blitzkrieg-like "operation" conducted by "the cavalry on the new American frontier."

In the weeks ahead, Bush will, like Hitler and Stalin before him, order the unconscionable murder of untold thousands of innocent humans in the name of the PNAC-envisioned imperium.

As is now painfully obvious, the American citizenry can do almost nothing to stop the impending blood bath about to unfold in Iraq (and maybe Saudi Arabia). Bush, the vicious frat boy who once tortured small animals, will not be dissuaded, he will not listen to the American people because they did not elect him and he does not represent them.

Bush was "elected" by the Enron and Lockheed Martin class of rich people who thrive on fraud, deception, murder, and theft. Bush represents transnational corporations, the kind run by criminals such as Dick Cheney and Ken Lay.

So determined to kill is the unelected president of the United States, he is now considering using nukes in Iraq if Saddam Hussein resists invasion with biological or chemical weapons. Bush will soon be a war criminal of immense, possibly so far unattained magnitude.

We can only hope there's enough left after this madman is finished (enough of a civilization and legal system, that is, left intact) so we can bring him and the other life-negating neocons and miscellaneous warmongers up on charges of crimes against humanity.

It may make the Nuremberg war crimes trials look like kindergarten.


MORE: http://www.stewwebb.com/cia_asset_tied_to_bin_laden_infi.htm

[Dig]

I thinkthat the RFK documentaries are excellent in showing that Hasan fits the profile of a Sirhan Sirhan patsy, but the best documentary IMO that exposes how these so called terrorists are created from international intelligence agencies, never investigated, able to roam freely even though authorities are alerted all of the time, and then covered up is fabled enemies...

Fabled Enemies
(Super High Quality, full movie)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2144933190875239407
1:42:16  - 1 year ago
Jason Bermas' Fabled Enemies on the intelligence apparatus and its involvement in 9/11


Tarpley (the master of exposing these connections) and now Bermas are really good resources for deconstructing these web of lies.


The Invisible Government & 9/11 Synthetic Terror

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7408508582302540857
1:06:19  - 3 years ago
Author Webster Tarpley's profusely illustrated lecture on the history of the invisible government, its hidden hand in false flag and synthetic terror plots worldwide and who really controls it, was widely accepted as one of the most in-depth and engrossing presentations of the American Scholars Symposium conference.


Webster Tarpley - The 9/11 issue - How to stop World War III
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2699841318334319800
2:00:47  - 3 years ago
Webster Tarpley in New York on January 15, 2006. The 9/11 issue - How to stop World War III.

[Dig]

Notice how multiple stories actually expose this CIA-fake terrorist network filled with obious controlled opposition "JIM JONES" type madmen who are a part of the MK-Ultra/CIA recruiting network for patsies...

Investigators Found E-Mails From Hasan to Al Qaeda, Officials Say
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573166,00.html?test=latestnews
Tuesday, November 10, 2009  

Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Hasan is suspected of a deadly rampage at the Fort Hood base in Texas.

Military and law enforcement investigators have located e-mails from alleged Fort Hood shooter Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan to people associated with Al Qaeda, two U.S. officials told Fox News on the condition of anonymity.

These officials would not say if Hasan actually received any replies from the "extremists" he tried to contact, but one official said the intelligence suggests the people he was trying to reach "did not take Hasan seriously."

Both officials would not confirm an earlier ABC News report that this information was known by intelligence officials months ago.

The ABC News report wasn't clear whether the agencies relayed this information to the Army

A U.S. intelligence official told Fox News that it would be wrong to say the CIA had information about Hasan contacting Al Qaeda that they did not share with the Army.

"There's no sign at this point that the CIA had collected information relevant to this case and then simply sat on it," an intelligence official told Fox News.

The intelligence official did not comment on whether the CIA has any information.

The report comes as news surfaced that the family of the alleged Fort Hood shooter held his mother's funeral at the same Virginia mosque that two Sept. 11 hijackers attended in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there.

Whether the Fort Hood shooter associated with the hijackers is something the FBI will probably look into, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The family of Maj. Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who killed 13 and wounded 29 at the Texas military base, held his mother's funeral at the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., on May 31, 2001, according to her obituary in the Roanoke Times newspaper.

In 2001, Anwar Aulaqi was an imam, or spiritual leader, at the Washington-area mosque. Aulaqi told the FBI in 2001 that, before he moved to Virginia in early 2001, he met with 9/11 hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi several times in San Diego. Al-Hazmi was at the time living with Khalid al-Mihdhar, another hijacker. Al-Hazmi and another hijacker, Hani Hanjour, attended the Dar al Hijrah mosque in Virginia in early April 2001.

In his FBI interview, Aulaqi denied ever meeting with al-Hazmi and Hanjour while in Virginia.

Aulaqi, a native-born U.S. citizen, left the United States in 2002, eventually traveling to Yemen. He was investigated by the FBI in 1999 and 2000 after it was learned that he may have been contacted by a possible procurement agent for Osama bin Laden. During this investigation, the FBI learned that Aulaqi knew people involved in raising money for Hamas, a Palestinian group on the U.S. State Department's terrorist list.

Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, outreach director at Dar al Hijrah, said he did not know whether Hasan ever attended the mosque but confirmed that the Hasan family participated in services there. Abdul-Malik said the Hasans were not leaders at the mosque and their attendance was utterly normal.

The Falls Church mosque is one of the largest on the East Coast, and thousands of worshippers attend prayers and services there every week. Abdul-Malik said it's a mistake for people to conflate regular attendance at a mosque with extremism.

Many Muslims pray at the mosque multiple times a day, he said. "It's part of family life. It's like going out for ice cream after dinner."

Faizul Khan, former imam of the Muslim Community Center in nearby Silver Spring, Md., where Hasan also worshipped, said he was not aware that Hasan had attended services at Dar al Hijrah but said it would not be unusual for Hasan to attend more than one mosque concurrently.

Khan said he did not recall Hasan mentioning having been taught or preached to by Aulaqi.

The London Telegraph first reported the potential link between Hasan and the mosque.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey said Sunday it's important for the country not to get caught up in speculation about Hasan's Muslim faith, and he has instructed his commanders to be on the lookout for anti-Muslim reaction to the killings at the Texas post.

He says focusing on the Islamic roots of the suspected shooter could "heighten the backlash" against all Muslims in the military.

Casey says diversity in the military "gives us strength."

Casey declined to answer questions about the investigation into the shooting, but said evidence to this point shows that Hasan acted alone. He toured Fort Hood on Friday with Army Secretary John McHugh.

Casey appeared on ABC's "This Week" and CNN's "State of the Union."


RELATED:

Alleged Fort Hood Shooter Tied to Mosque of 9/11 Hijackers
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573050,00.html

New York-Based Muslim's Web Site Calls for God to 'Kill the Jews'
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,565365,00.html


The true story of JIM JONES has been told by the special operations commander in charge of the compartmentalized clean up. He is also real life person of whom the character "RAMBO" is based on. The reason that his truth can never be admitted is BECAUSE THE PROJECT IS STILL GOING ON!

[Jackson Holly]

Obama Urges Congress to Delay Fort Hood Investigation


"The stakes are far too high," Obama said...

~ ~ ~ > Yaah ... what if Hasan's brainwashing breaks during questioning?

[luckee1]

Well now we know why the FBI and the DOD backed off from investigating him before all this jumped off.  He was one of the crew.

[TelepesT]

Well now we know why the FBI and the DOD backed off from investigating him before all this jumped off.  He was one of the crew.

This gets crazier everyday - I can't even remember what it was like to be asleep. How can American people hear this stuff and not care?

[luckee1]

Two words:  Information Overload!

[chris jones]

It does not suprise me tha Obama is declaring a hold on this or the next week, no more MSM reporting untill the facts are our , or whatever he spins.

In reality this will give the think tankers time to develop
anothery  spin or create another scenerio to smoke this one out.

This will be borring for the silent majority, the easiest solution for many is to turn on the TV watch a citcom and label this guy a lone shooter and Muslim terrorist. See, easy isn't it. No thinking required,no investigation, nor time lost on the nightly boob tube.

Ignorence is bliss, so is a labotomy.

[v]

CLG also mentions Hasan's name showing up on the GWU Homeland Security report.  Also mentioned is the discovery of video of Hasan at a Homeland Security conference.

http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html

[ersatz]

Soldier says ordered to delete Fort Hood video


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/soldier-ordered-delete-fort-hood-video/

[agentbluescreen]

Two words:  Information Overload!

No. "Manchurian Candidate"

[Satyagraha]

Fort Hood Shootings: Is the CIA Controlling the Investigation and Trial of Nidal Hasan?
http://www.antifascistencyclopedia.com/allposts/fort-hood-shootings-is-the-cia-controlling-the-investigation-and-trial-of-nidal-malik-hasan
13th October 2010

Officials: Major Hasan Sought War Crimes Prosecution of U.S. Soldiers 16 Nov 2009

Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s military superiors repeatedly ignored or rebuffed his efforts to open criminal prosecutions of soldiers he claimed had confessed to war crimes during psychiatric counseling, according to investigative reports circulated among federal law enforcement officials. …

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/officials-major-hasan-sought-war-crimes-prosecution-us/story?id=9019904

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CIA Denies Report of Blocking Hasan Intel
Officials Tell CBS News That Agency Isn’t Withholding Information on Suspected Fort Hood Shooter

… Responding to a report that the Army psychiatrist suspected in last week’s Fort Hood shootings had tried to contact people within al Qaeda – and that government intelligence agencies knew about it and are refusing to brief Congress on it – a U.S. intelligence official told CBS News that the CIA isn’t withholding information from Congress. … ABC News published the report Monday morning with details that the CIA was refusing to brief the congressional committees charged with overseeing the intelligence agencies, a senior lawmaker told ABC. … The report comes a day after lawmakers discussed the possibility of launching a congressional investigation into the worst mass shooting at a military facility in the United States last week that left 13 dead and 29 wounded. …

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/09/national/main5587754.shtml

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Alex Constantine: We’ve heard repeatedly about Hasan’s involvement with cleric Anwar al Awlaki, but little about …

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MAJOR HASAN’S MOSQUE LINKED TO THE CIA’S CHECHEN TERRORISTS

... In recent years, Major Hasan attended a mosque in Silver Spring Maryland which hosted fundraising for CIA covert operations against Russia: “Imam Faizul Khan ministered to Hasan when he worshiped at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring , Md . The Muslim Community Center has held fundraisers for Chechen jihadists, and promotes on its website a Shariah-based financial product offered by a Muslim Brotherhood front group under federal investigation.” The essential element here is that the mosque was raising money for Chechen rebellion, which is notoriously a strategic tool of the United States and the United Kingdom against Russia. …

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=115465
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Alex Constantine: Recalling the official probe of the Fort Hood  shootings – chaired by former CIA/FBI director William Webster – this bio from the blog of Hasan’s defense attorney, John Galligan, gives us Georgetown U. with its myriad intelligence ties, and a background in military intelligence:

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Colonel (ret.) John P. Galligan (“JP”)

Colonel John Galligan retired from the US Army in June 2001.

At the time of his retirement, he was serving as the Chief Circuit Judge, 3rd Judicial Circuit, Fort Hood, Texas.

Born in 1949 at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, Colonel Galligan spent his childhood as a military dependant, accompanying his parents on remote military assignments to Fort Churchill, Canada; Taipei, Formosa; and Istanbul, Turkey.

Graduating in 1971 from Georgetown University (School of Foreign Service) in Washington DC, Colonel Galligan was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Military Intelligence branch.

To fulfill his Regular Army commission responsibilities, he served as a combat arms officer in the Infantry branch, initially as Platoon Leader and later as Company Executive Officer and then Brigade Courts and Boards Officer, with the 41st infantry, Combat Developments Experimentation Command, at Fort Ord, California. …

http://forthoodattorney.com/about/

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2009: Robert Gates Orders up an Investigation Headed by TOGO WEST and VERNON CLARK
Alex Constantine: Both have extensive right-wing CIA, intelligence contractor and military-industrial ties:

Pentagon Probe Leaders Visit Fort Hood to Begin Investigation | 24 Nov 2009

Leaders of a Pentagon-appointed task force charged with investigating what factors led to the Fort Hood massacre Nov. 5 and recommending policies to prevent future attacks began their review today, saying their job is not ‘to point fingers.’ Togo West, former Secretary of the Army and Secretary of Veterans Affairs during the Clinton administration, and former Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Vernon Clark, are leading the review board. They arrived at the Fort Hood base today to begin what will be a 45-day investigation.”

http://www.legitgov.org/attack_on_fort_hood_051109.html

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Alex Constantine: Togo West comes from the law firm of Covington & Burling, on intimate terms with the CIA. McGeorge Bundy, Dean Acheson, John R. Bolton, Michael Chertoff,  Eric Holder, Jr. and the late Robert Wone all hailed from C&B. The firm’s clients include  Pfizer, Chiquita, Halliburton, Xe Services (Blackwater) and abductees at Gitmo. (Source: Wikipedia - West “practiced law at the firm of Covington & Burling before being appointed an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the administration of President Gerald Ford.”)

Admiral Vernon E. Clark USN (Ret.) (born September 7, 1944) was the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) in the United States Navy. He retired 22 July 2005, making his tenure of five years the second-longest serving CNO behind Arleigh Burke. He currently sits on the board of directors of Raytheon and SRI International. … He directed the Joint Staff’s Crisis Action Team for Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm. … Admiral Clark now serves on the Board of Directors of Raytheon Company, Rolls Royce North America, SRI International, Horizon Lines … He serves as a senior advisor with Booz Allen Hamilton, the Defense Policy Board, the advisory boards of Fleishman-Hillard, Computer Science Corporation (CSC) … (Source: Wikipedia)

Some of these companies (Halliburton, Blackwater, CSC) have engaged in war crimes - similar to those Hasan tried to report …

- Alex Constantine

[starvosan]

The testimony of the witnesses at the military's version of a grand jury describe a shooter who very well trained in small arms firing:


http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=45265   day 3
--...several soldiers have beat and testified to the same steady, fast rate of fire, broken only by pauses for reloading.
--Two soldiers from the 1908th Medical Detachment ...  said they saw an older civilian with white hair run yelling towards the shooter with a chair held over his head, only to be shot multiple times. One said the man sustained three to four shots up and down the front of his body.
 
http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=45345  day 4
--Sgt. Megan Martin.. "...he began to come around the counter and started shooting to the left of me in a fan motion, left to right," detailing the weapon as a small hand gun with a green light and red laser..